Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Psychiatry Res. 2016 Dec 30;246:25-31. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.09.016. Epub 2016 Sep 14.
Humor training has been applied to educational and clinical cases and has been found to be effective, but humor training for individuals with autism is relatively rare. The present study proposed a humor-knowledge and humor-skill training workshop to enhance the humor comprehension and appreciation of individuals with autism and examined the effects of the training. Participants were 20 adolescents with autism and average intelligence (above 70 in WAIS-III). They were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Both questionnaire of joke comprehension and appreciation and a humor style questionnaire were used as instruments. The results supported the effectiveness of the 15-h training. The comprehension and appreciation of nonsense humor were significantly increased in the experimental group in comparison with the control group, although the incongruity-resolution jokes remained difficult to comprehend. The tendency to use affiliative humor was greater among individuals with autism in the experimental group, suggesting that the appreciation of humor can be learned.
幽默训练已被应用于教育和临床案例，并已被证明是有效的，但针对自闭症个体的幽默训练相对较少。本研究提出了一个幽默知识和幽默技能训练工作坊，以提高自闭症个体的幽默理解和欣赏能力，并检验了训练的效果。参与者是 20 名具有平均智力（WAIS-III 高于 70）的自闭症青少年。他们被随机分为实验组和对照组。笑话理解和欣赏问卷以及幽默风格问卷均被用作工具。结果支持了 15 小时训练的有效性。实验组在无意义幽默的理解和欣赏方面显著高于对照组，尽管不协调-解决笑话仍然难以理解。实验组自闭症个体使用亲和幽默的倾向更大，这表明对幽默的欣赏是可以学习的。
